We know that enduring peace cannot be bought at the cost of other people's freedom. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech...Freedom of worship...Freedom from want...Freedom from fear. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All free peoples are deeply impressed by the courage and steadfastness of the Greek nation. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The winds that blow through the wide sky in these mounts, the winds that sweep from Canada to Mexico, from the Pacific… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Freedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self reliant enough to be free. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The function of Government must be to favor no small group at the expense of its duty to protect the rights of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We do not see faith, hope, and charity as unattainable ideals, but we use them as stout supports of a nation fighting… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The world order which we seek is the co-operation of free countries, working together in a friendly, civilized society. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions-bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
America has been the New World in all tongues, to all peoples, not because this continent was a new-found land, but because… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics.… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Let us be clear at the outset that the liberty of individuals to carry on their business should not be abrogated unless… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The royalists of the economic order have conceded that political freedom was the business of the government, but they have maintained that… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“To the Congress: Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our government is based on the belief that a people can be both strong and free, that civilized men need no restraint… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Liberty requires opportunity to make a living--a living decent according to the standard of the time, a living which gives a man… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is of no use to a man who has nothing to say and freedom of worship is of no… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The public schools shall be free from sectarian influences and, above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In a democratic nation, power must be linked with responsibility, and obliged to defend and justify itself within the framework of the general good. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
'Peace on earth, good will toward men' - democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded. I have seen men… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
All of our people all over the country-except the pure-blooded Indians-are immigrants or descendants of immigrants, including even those who came over here on… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
On the European Front the most important development of the past year has been the crushing offensive of the Great Armies of Russia... — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The core of our defense is the faith we have in the institutions we defend. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Labor Day symbolizes our determination to achieve an economic freedom for the average man which will give his political freedom realty. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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